Prologue I have always been skeptical of the viability and potential benefits of AI technologies. This is because they are ...

Greek artisans built a bronze device around 80 B.C. that could track Olympiad cycles, predict eclipses, and model planetary positions through interlocking gears, all without electricity, transistors, ...

As part of its commitment to scientific research, innovation and heritage preservation, Hublot has partnered with Swiss content creator Anil Brancaleoni to document an extraordinary scientific mission ...

The digital simulation integrated documented manufacturing deviations into a virtual model of the device’s triangular, V-shaped gear teeth. The engineering team’s analysis revealed a significant ...

Researchers call the Antikythera Mechanism a 'computer' that 'breaks' the chronology of history, citing newly decoded functions uncovered long after its shipwreck. An analysis of the Antikythera ...

Hidden for two millennia beneath the Mediterranean Sea, a corroded bronze device recovered from a Greek shipwreck has forced historians to rewrite the story of ancient technology. The Antikythera ...

Several millennia ago, a Greek ship sank off the coast of an island in the Aegean Sea called Antikythera. It was carrying statues, coins, and one mysterious shoebox-sized object. Watch editors Andrew ...

While clearly showing how technologically advanced the Greeks were and how much more sophisticated in their measurement of time than us, researchers still haven’t been able to figure out who invented ...

Antikythera mechanism fragment A. Credit: Marsyas / CC BY 2.5 In a groundbreaking paper titled “Reconstructing the Antikythera Mechanism’s Central Front Dial Parts – Division and Placement of the ...

The Antikythera mechanism, a mysterious ancient Greek device that is often called the world’s first computer, may not have functioned at all, according to a simulation of its workings. But researchers ...

The Antikythera Mechanism, once thought to be an advanced astronomical tool, may have been a malfunctioning toy prone to constant jams, according to new research. Recent analysis of the device’s ...

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